John Margolis Follow

You Think You Know Someone
© 2006 Margolis, Rosler

New lovers always seem to have this conversation
Let’s take turns telling of the others in our past
We could talk until the dawn, and measure up our passion
comparing all the reasons that it didn’t last

Here’s a box of letters to a certain girl who haunts me
My brave attempt to save a disillusioned love
I never sent them after all, but you can read them
or let me briefly sum the essence of it up

You think you know someone,
but do you ever really know someone?
Can you follow where their true heart runs
when that careful voice inside of you whispers,
"Hide your own from view."
You think you know someone

My dear don’t look so sad, she left me with a lesson
Always wear a charming smile but keep things to yourself
Wasn’t it you who said that life is just a party
I thought that’s why we both would get along so well, well

You think you know someone
like you’ve never known just anyone
Or is your window to their soul
just your imagination blinding you
and once again you're lonely and confused
You think you know someone

idle talk just numbs my ears
like elevator banter,
“Yes it’s cold outside...
well, I got to get off here."
but she shared my bed for all these many years

You think you know someone
’cause you make love and you hold someone
but when all is said and done
in the darkness I can see
I really don’t know
anyone at all most of all, me
You think you know someone